Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-12-11
THE NORTHWEST.
4 RAILROAD NAN IMPRESSIONS OP THE
RED RIVER VALLEY
The Greatest Wheat Producing C0lau? u The World
-Lae Which Hills Eleven Million Bushels
O! Wheat PEI M9L.l.

Mr.. ID. r. McGinni-, travelling passenger
agent Of the st. Paul, MINNEAPOLIS and
| Manitoba Railway, vas in the city Ter a
| short time Wednesday evening, Oh his way
10 Columbus, where he goes to establish
headquarters for his Company for the
! State OF Ohio. Mr.. McGinnis came right
through from st. Paul, where he has
formed a close friendship With Mr.. Lewis
Baker. formerly Of tnis city, and he said,
as ne shook hands with the reporter, that
he could not resist stopping of in Wheel
ing 2 fcw hours TO have 3 look at the
town.
In answer to questions Mr. Mctiinnis
detailed some very interesting facts con-
corning the wheat producing portion Of the
great Northwest. through which his road
runs. lie said:
"Our big business is in carrying wheat
We are shipping eleven million bushels per
month Of wheat alone, aud have Il regular
! IlON WI ilObR 'tN INK wv " p''N''h
OF oar roa,i We nave ak parallel trarks, ia
some places only a few miles apart, and
yet We aie not able TO handle the business.
| will give You an illustration Of the way
we grow wheat out there. There are two
counties in Dakota which last season raised
ten million three hundred thousand bush
lis 81 wheat, besides other grain. Think
! VI tn,-. IN connection with the fact that
the great agricultural State of Kansas only
produced about eight million bushels. and
the entire State Of Ohio, | think. about
eighteen million bushels. There axe
pleutY of places along our lines where the
traveller will see a cluster of two to five
houses, and overshadowing them wheat
elevators with a capacity OF hundreds OF
! thousands OF bushels. ! have in my mind
one point where there Is one miserable Int
| tie shack and five big elevator. with a
| capacity of 250,OOU bushels. 1t il q great
country and is we'll worth yiaiting by East
trn people. A nan can get along there,
as the saying i, az he can n" where else,
hut it sometimes takes "a little energy TO
keep mp with the procession The cities
of ST Papl aud Minneapolis are showing n
wonderful growth. But this is Lot
strange TO an Eastern man when he looks
at the surroundings and the conditions,
For instance, for a thousand miles our
read runs through q rich agricultural
country, which is all directly tributary 10
! 81. Paul and her sister city. They have
no rivals, and the result il a steady
stream of travel and constant influx OF
money. Think how different that is from
what we find here, where one meets a big
city at the end of every hundred miles Of
railroad travel. Look at the situation OF
Wheeling, for example. Close at hand
are Pittsburgh. Cleveland, Columbus and
Cincinnati. You are surrounded on all
| sides. Bat how you wUuld flourish if you
bad I clear sweep of the field. In this
altered condition YOU find the cause Of
swift growth in Western cities. | on
slider the Red River Valley the greatest
agricultural region in this country, and
ils crop-raising resources are constantly
being extended.
"Mr. Baker is prospecting in st. Paul,
and has the most valuable newspaper
property in the Northwest, outside Of
ChicagO.n